Music / Tyler Cassidy

"'Cause your boyfriend's a bitch
He ain't shit, he can suck on my dick
I ain't with all that shit
Why he do you like this?"
When you're home all alone
While he out fucking 'round with them hoes"

— Tyler Cassidy, Boyfriend

Tyler Cassidy is a self-described "average musician, entertainer, and D-List internet celebrity", largely based out of YouTube. He's best known for his performances as his persona Froggy Fresh (formerly known as Krispy Kreme), with several of his songs going viral in 2012 and propelling him into internet fame. In 2018, Cassidy retired the Froggy Fresh persona and began releasing music on his personal YouTube channel under his real name. Many of his songs are much more serious in tone than those he made as Froggy Fresh, though he releases a fair amount of comedy songs as well. However, many of these feature much more adult humor and profanity, with many of them falling into Black Comedy. As opposed to the rap songs he released as Froggy Fresh, many of Cassidy's songs fall more into the R&B genre.
After many videos of him playing the piano while singing both covers and original songs, he released his first album under his real name, Renee, in 2019.

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Tyler Cassidy's songs provide examples of...

• Closet Gay: Every President Is Gay jokingly accuses every United States President in history of being this.
• Crazy Cultural Comparison: Played for laughs in Why Do Muslim Women Dress Like Ninjas. The song's narrative ends with a woman in a niqab framing Tyler for a bank robbery, with him coming to the conclusion that they dress that way in order to pull off heists.
• Genre Shift: Twin Flames has Cassidy moving away from the typical R&B sound he usually goes for in favor of a pop-punk inspired sound. Justified, as he's parodying Machine Gun Kelly.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: After the previous two songs featured a number of jokes about Tyler having sex with men, Chris Hemsworth 3 tells the story of his attempts to convince his mother that he's straight.
  Mom, I'm not gay, just because I think Chris Hemsworth's hot
  I'm not gay, just because I'd like to kiss The Rock
  Mom I'm not gay, just because I'd rather be a top
  Mom I'm not gay, but if I was
  Would you still love me?
• Lyrical Dissonance: Whole Lotta Gang Shit plays with this, as the song is rather upbeat, while the lyrics are dedicated to being as outrageously offensive as possible. The chorus (which is humorously lyrically unrelated to the rest of the song) exemplifies this, with the upbeat R&B styling clashing with lyrics that sound more like they'd belong in a Gangsta Rap song.
  'Cause it's a whole lotta gang shit
  And this money ain't a god damn thing, bitch
  I got some trap homies we can hang with
  First they pull strap out, then they aim it
• Mistaken for Gay: Chris Hemsworth 3 centers around Cassidy's mother being convinced that he's gay due to the previous two Chris Hemsworth songs having copious mentions of Tyler having sex with or being attracted to men. Played with, as exactly how heterosexual Tyler's character in the song actually is is rather questionable.
  I said "Mom, I always go to church, Mom, I always pray
  So just because I think some guy is cute don't make me gay
  Just 'cause I can recognize that certain guys are hot
  Mom, it doesn't make me gay," she said, "It doesn't make you not"
• Mystical Pregnancy: Pregnant Virgin is told from the perspective of the biblical Joseph, focusing on his confusion over his wife's sudden pregnancy despite the two of them not having had sex. Much of the song centers around his suspicions of infidelity towards Mary, though in the end Joseph decides to be a good parent to the child regardless.
• Ruder and Cruder: As stated previously, many of his songs are much more adult in nature than anything he released as Froggy Fresh, which were generally pretty tame and avoided even mild profanity. His Tyler Cassidy songs, on the other hand, feature copious amounts of swearing and dark humor.
• Sexless Marriage:
  • Chris Hemsworth focuses on one of these, with the song telling a story of Tyler's wife no longer wanting to have sex with him due to being more attracted to Chris Hemsworth. As a result, Tyler ends up deciding to start sleeping with his male friends instead of trying to win back his wife. Despite the song obviously being a joke, Cassidy had to state in the video's description that it was created to make his wife laugh and wasn't meant to be taken seriously due to an abundance of comments taking the lyrics at face value.
  • Averted in the sequel tracks. Chris Hemsworth 2 instead focuses on Tyler having a lurid affair with the actor. The third song in the series focuses on Tyler attempting to convince his mother that he's straight despite his strong attraction to Hemsworth. The end of the song reverses the roles, with his mother suddenly kissing Megan Fox and subsequently attempting to convince Tyler of her heterosexuality.
• Take That!:
  • The Macklemore's Wife Is A Cunt trilogy was a massive one of these against Macklemore's wife, based on an incident in Los Angeles International Airport, in which Cassidy was in the same line Macklemore and his wife at the security checkpoint, and witnessed the wife having a public meltdown and getting into a screaming match with a foreign woman who didn't speak English.
    The songs were later removed, and Cassidy's wife confirmed on Reddit that Tyler felt he was a bit too harsh and didn't feel comfortable having three songs dedicated solely to attacking a woman on his YouTube channel, with additional worries about demonetization or receiving a community guidelines strike.
  • Louis C.K. is one towards the titular comedian, mocking the creator for his allegations of sexual misconduct.
  • Amber Guyger is a scathing takedown of the police officer charged for the murder of Botham Jean, who was shot and killed in 2018 after Guyger entered his apartment by mistake and erroneously believed him to be a burglar, falsely thinking that the unit was her own. While the song is comedic in nature, it avoids making light of the tragedy and instead focuses on mocking and condemning Guyger's conduct as an officer.
  • Better Call Feet is much more light-hearted and friendly in nature compared to most of the other examples of this trope, poking fun at Bob Odenkirk after it was noticed the actor was following a foot fetish account on Instagram.
  • Twin Flames has Cassidy delivering one of these towards Machine Gun Kelly, adopting the name "Machine Gun Krispy" and parodying MGK's musical style with a lyrical focus on the artist's recent breakup with Megan Fox.
    She was the prom queen, he was a crackhead
    She had big breast-es, he had fake street cred
    It was a love story, for all the losers
    For all the cheaters and serial abusers
    He'd paint his nails up dark and black
    Make a sacrifice and then call her back
    He said "Let's go out, we can grab a snack
    I'll wear my spiked shock collar with the leash attached"
  • The now-deleted song Me VS iDubbbz cage match is one towards iDubbbz, made in the wake of Cassidy's abrupt and controversial removal from the roster of his Creator Clash 2 charity boxing event only three weeks before it happened. Cassidy had been removed due to being trained by controversial comedian Sam Hyde, whom iDubbbz is on bad terms with. After the fact, Cassidy had been vocally critical of the event's management and his treatment from the staff, having been threatened with legal action for even speaking about his removal and feeling he was the victim of guilt by association. It was later revealed that the event failed to turn a profit, leading to Cassidy releasing a song jokingly talking about fighting iDubbbz in a cage match to raise back the lost money.
    Opened up Twitter, I heard the news
    My boy Ian Jomha ain't paying his dues
    He got costs out the wazoo, bills out the ass
    When the charity calls, say he ain't got the cash
    We can pay all them charities back in one day
    If you fight my dumb midget ass in a cage
    'Cause don't nobody care 'bout Creator Clash 3
    Bitch, them parties cost money, but this ass whipping's free
  • Ian Garry is a massive one towards the titular MMA fighter, made in collaboration with fellow mixed martial artist Sean Strickland as part of Strickland's feud with Garry. The song focuses on Garry's marriage to television presenter Layla Machado, who is fourteen years Garry's senior and authored a book entitled How to Be a WAG, which some have described as "a gold digger’s guide to locking down young and successful athletes".
    Somebody save Ian, 'cause I don't wanna see him
    With the forty-year-old gold digging European
    There's a cougar on the prowl, bringing young men down
    She's older than your dad and she's coming to your town